Wednesday, October 15, 2014 | case-update
This afternoon the plaintiffs have filed a brief urging the U.S. Supreme Court to stop Texas’ discriminatory photo ID law from being used in the upcoming elections. Plaintiffs asked the Supreme Court to vacate the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals decision to stay a federal judge’s decision last week to bar the law from being implemented in […]
Monday, June 6, 2016 | case-update
Today, the United States Supreme Court granted certiorari in Buck v. Stephens, a death penalty case raising extraordinary issues of racial bias in capital punishment sentencing. LDF, along with its co-counsel, the Texas Defender Service and Holland & Knight LLP, represents Duane Buck, an African-American death-sentenced prisoner in Texas, in this appeal. LDF is asking […]
Monday, June 6, 2016 | case-update
Today, the United States Supreme Court granted certiorari in Buck v. Stephens, a death penalty case raising extraordinary issues of racial bias in capital punishment sentencing. LDF, along with its co-counsel, the Texas Defender Service and Holland & Knight LLP, represents Duane Buck, an African-American death-sentenced prisoner in Texas, in this appeal. LDF is asking the […]
Monday, June 6, 2016 | news
Today, the United States Supreme Court granted certiorari in Buck v. Stephens, a death penalty case raising extraordinary issues of racial bias in capital punishment sentencing. LDF, along with its co-counsel, the Texas Defender Service and Holland & Knight LLP, represents Duane Buck, an African-American death-sentenced prisoner in Texas, in this appeal. LDF is asking […]
Friday, July 1, 2011 | news
A federal commission’s approval of new sentencing guidelines could result in significantly reduced sentences for as many as 12,000 federal inmates now serving time for crack-cocaine offenses. The U.S. Sentencing Commission voted unanimously Thursday to allow federal judges to retroactively apply the amendment to federal sentencing guidelines Congress enacted last year. Those amendments narrowed the […]
Monday, December 27, 2010 | news
In one of its last acts of the current session, on December 22, 2010, the U.S. Senate confirmed the nominations of Jacqueline A. Berrien to be Chair of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission; Chai R. Feldblum ( a long-time lesbian activist ) and Victoria A. Lipnic to be Commissioners; and P. David Lopez to […]
Tuesday, February 20, 2018 | news
Read a pdf of our statement here. Judgment Entered For Plaintiffs in Open Communities Alliance v. Carson Ensures Greater Housing Opportunities For Low-Income Families WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) recently agreed to abandon its attempt to delay a federal rule designed to provide greater housing opportunities for low-income […]
Friday, September 27, 2013 | case-update
In a letter sent to LDF, the U.S. Department of Education has confirmed it will investigate a complaint that we and Texas Appleseed filed which challenges the “disparate impact” that Bryan school district’s practice of issuing criminal citations for minor misbehavior has on African-American students, who are ticketed at four times the rate of their peers. “This […]
Wednesday, November 13, 2013 | case-update
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit heard oral arguments on November 13, 2013, in Fisher v. University of Texas, following the Supreme Court’s decision this past June in which it declined to end the University’s race-conscious admissions plan and sent the case back to the lower court for further proceedings. Josh Civin, Counsel to the […]
Thursday, November 14, 2013 | news
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit heard oral arguments today in Fisher v. University of Texas, following the Supreme Court’s decision this past June in which it declined to end the University’s race-conscious admissions plan and sent the case back to the lower court for further proceedings. Josh Civin, Counsel to the Director of […]
